New Mayoral Leads for a smart, active and engaged City

At next week’s Council AGM I will be proposing some additional Mayoral Leads to work with me and the Cabinet to create a new vibrant city. Some will be existing Mayoral Leads whose successful work should continue and others will be new or replacements for those which have reached the end of their projects.

There are three in particular I am excited about.

Cllr Dan Hughes is to be Mayoral Lead for Youth and Citizen Engagement. Dan will use his expertise in the media and social media to engage people with the little actions which can have a big impact on our city. For example, developing a sense of civic pride in our city and reducing levels of littering.

Cllr Tim Beaumont is to be Mayoral Lead for City Wellbeing. Tim will shape activities and bring partners together to encourage people to change the way they live. Working alongside Roz Gladden as Cabinet Member for Adult Social Care & Health, Tim will be leading on public health campaigns such as reducing alcohol consumption and obesity.

Cllr Tim Moore is to be Mayoral Lead for Organised Sports. Tim, as an active member of a sports club himself, will bring together the grassroots sporting communities of Liverpool to identify growth and development opportunities, encouraging more people to take part. Liverpool’s sporting heritage is second to none and it is a result of thousands of people coming together once a week to play a sport of their choice.

Together, they will create activity and campaigns to encourage Liverpool citizens to take greater pride in our city, help them tackle health and wellbeing issues and be more active in the, already vibrant, grassroots sporting communities we have.

Another new position is Mayoral Lead for Energy and Smart City, Cllr Jim Noakes, who will lead on encouraging investment in green energy developing a networked city. Jim will lead on other innovations to make our city an exciting place for next-generation businesses to invest and locate in Liverpool.

Mayoral Leads are councillors who I have asked to focus on smaller, targeted areas which will help have a transformative impact on our city. Together these new Mayoral Leads, alongside the work of others, are having a profound impact on the way we work in Liverpool City Council and our relationships with groups within the city. My team for Liverpool, including Cabinet Members and Mayoral Leads, has an exciting agenda to take Liverpool forward, encouraging people to get involved and engage to build a fairer, growing, economy and a healthy city we can be proud of.